Let's assume for a moment that reincarnation exists and that we do come back to earth and live as someone else. On your return, would you like to be with the exact same people as in this life?

Do you want the people you have been with all your life back in your new life either as your parents or your offspring? Obviously under different circumstances but the same souls meeting again in another lifetime?

Sounds enticing, but let me turn this question on its head. Suppose someone were to say to you, “The people in your life now have never been with you in previous lives. Would you prefer that the old ones from your past life had been recycled into this one instead of this current bunch?”

For me, the answer to the above would be an unequivocal “No!”. But it’s exactly the same question as yours, only looked at from a different time perspective.

Actually, even if you won’t remember the person in your next life, you can still give a “yes” or “no” response. If the person in question is loving, caring, and exceptional in every which way, then I would say a definitive “yes.” Even if I won’t remember making this decision, it would positively affect my next life by guaranteeing that I will close to a good person.

I don’t think it would make any difference to me unless I had awareness that we had been together before and could learn from the errors we have made in previous lives. I would love to be able to believe that my parents, my children and my husband were with me previously and more importantly, would be in the future.

Most of the people in my life are still in my life because I love them. If I didn’t care for them, I’d oust them. So sure, I’d love to be surrounded by the same loved ones again, only I would like to do so in the form of a beloved house cat again.

I don’t think my present life’s behavior would earn me a trip back as a person. I’d have to go several (or more) incarnations, doing better each time, before I got to come back as a human. I’m not sure who or what determines that..

Some people believe that we continue to interact with the same souls until we work through what is necessary. A friend of our family believes she has been married to her husband in many lives and they keep repeating this relationship because they cannot come to total peace with each other.